Social Work and Public Health Guides : The Joint Sitemap of the Content of These Guides and Related Content

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Social Work Research Guide : Social Work and Public Health Guides : The Joint Sitemap of the Content of These Guides and Related Content

This Research Guide Provides L:inks to Many Databases, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Handbooks, Directories and Other Resources Important to Social Work Research. There are sections covering selected issue areas also important to social work research and

"Today's site, from Temple University's Reference Librarian, Dr. David Dillard,
offers a comprehensive source of the latest information in medical research and news. Gentle Subscribers will discover an exceptional reference for keeping up to date on a range of health issues and conditions."

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"This extensive collection provides a noteworthy source for ongoing content on
an impressive diversity of medical subjects, from Acid Reflux to Water Quality.
Alphabetically organized header tabs enable easy navigation to specific topics
with the location of these subsequently indicated and generally found by simply
scrolling down. For example, the section on Cystic Fibrosis News includes more
than a dozen recent links, while mouseovers reveal the introductory words of
the articles. Links default to Medical News Today and its acknowledged expertise in delivering relevant medical and health information; email alerts and RSS feeds by topic are available."

("social work" OR "social administration" OR "social welfare" OR "public assistance" OR "drug abuse" OR "substance abuse" OR alcoholics or alcoholism OR "alcohol abuse" OR tobacco OR cigarette OR cigarettes OR smokers OR "drug addiction" OR "substance addiction" OR "drug dependence" OR "substance dependence" OR "POLICE BRUTALITY") AND "NET-GOLD" AND "TEMPLE.EDU"

STATISTICS :
RESEARCH GUIDES :
How to Use the United States Government Agency Section
of the Statistics Resources Research Guide for Statistical Data Sources
for Specific Topic Searches

Finding and using statistical sources is a challenge for most students and many researchers. Finding government statistical sources are even more of a befuddlement. Requests for govenment information, let alone statistics, have dwindled in recent years in live reference situations. Providing a tool that shows, agency by agency, where government statistics hide in a group of links to database search results contributes to statistical literacy and to information literacy for government statistical sources and to the uses for government statistics.

Even though the actual publications found in these searches are not free, all of the databases used are. Over fifty government agencies of the United States federal government are now included and this is a work in progress as is the entire statistics resource guide. United States government agencies do provide statistical data for other countries.

Many teachers tell students not to use Google for serious research as I religiously did until October 2014 when I saw one web address on the MedLib-L discussion group. I have no idea what the post was about, I just noticed one web address and as the lesson evolved, I started joining the students rather than trying to change them in regards to using Google Web Search as part of my database searching research tool.

This message provides examples of internet based guides to the searching platforms and the database search structure found in the search tools of various databanks (companies that lease or sell access to bibliographic databases).

Libraries pay a huge sum of money to purchase databases. It would make sense to use guides to teach database skills or point students to sources that teach them. Proquest, for example, provides a number of Libguides that are free on the web and teach some skills and techniques that are promoted for getting the best results from their databases. In your guides, appropriate Proquest Libguide(s) may be listed under the entries for Proquest databases.

Resources teaching the syntax, structure, and instruction in best practices for searching databases from Google, EbscoHost, Proquest, Ovid and PubMed are included in this Webliography.

Temple University Libraries Tips and Links

The content below on this web page consists of an Internet Archive
snapshot of the Temple University Index on the main University
website page. Addition of current links was not possible on library
guides. Therefore this link provides a site that has both the Internet Archive links in the text link and a web URL for the actual Temple Address for these departments, services and resources

Temple University Tips and Links

The content below on this web page consists of an Internet Archive
snapshot of the Temple University Index on the main University
website page. Addition of current links was not possible on library
guides. Therefore this link provides a site that has both the Internet Archive links in the text link and a web URL for the actual Temple Address for these departments, services and resources

Temple University's Teaching Learning Technology Roundtable (TLTR) consists of a diverse group that meets regularly and considers issues to provide advice to our President, Provost, constituencies and other TU leaders.

Our TLTR is designed to bring together people who would not otherwise work together on educational improvements (for example, technology leaders with faculty who are not yet enthusiastic users of technology for teaching).

The content below on this web page consists of an Internet Archive snapshot of the Temple University Index on the main University website page. Addition of current links was not possible on library guides. Therefore this link provides a site that has both the Internet Archive links in the text link and a web URL for the actual Temple Address for these departments, services and resources.

Public Health and Government
Public Health and Legal Issues
Public Health and Exercise, Diet, Nutrition, and Obesity
Selected Sources about Public Health and Disease
Public Health and Disasters
Public Health and Disasters Search Results
Public Health and Disasters: Selected Books for Learning Study and Research
Disaster and Disasters Resources
Health Care Reform
Vaccines, Vaccination and the Anti-Vaccination Movements
Various Public Health and Social Welfare Issues